Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Response - Northern Pines Mental Health

Description

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is proud to offer competitive wages and an exceptional benefits package!

We are seeking aMental Health Practitionerto join ourMobile Crisis Outreachteam.This full-time position will work primarily daytime, weekday shifts and work throughout our six-county service region. Candidates must be qualified as a Mental Health Practitioner per MN DHS. Travel is a function of this position; ability to operate a motor vehicle along with a valid driver’s license is required.

Essential Functionsinclude:

• Enable a recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness
• Enable a recipient to regain and/or retain stability and functioning if the recipient is at risk of losing significant functionality or being admitted to a more restrictive service setting without these services
• Instruct, assist, and support a recipient in areas such as medication education and monitoring; and basic social and living skills in mental illness symptom management, household management, employment-related, or transitioning to community living. This may include transporting recipients in order to effectively accomplish these tasks in a timely fashion.
• Provide interim services when no other resources are immediately available to meet critical consumer need. The service is provided based on need, not program eligibility.
• Connect recipients to mental health continuum of care and resources as needed for ongoing stability after ICTS services completion.

Qualificationsinclude:

• Travel is a requirement of the position; valid driver’s license and ability to operate a motor vehicle are required
• Must meet Mental Health Practitioner status per the State of Minnesota

Benefitsinclude:

• Health, Dental, Disability and Life insurance with other additional voluntary options for spousal life,short term disability, accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness plans
• Health Savings account with employer contribution
• 401K with employer match
• Generous paid time off (1st - 3rdyear, full-time employees earn 19 days/152 hours per year. Increases with longevity!)
• Nine holidays observed per year as follows: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and a Weather Float Day.
• Supportive of time off for a healthy work/life balance
• Bereavement Pay
• Travel reimbursement
• Paid Supervision if working toward independent licensure

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. Please submit a resume and cover letter if interested in applying.

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